'Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E.
Howard in the 1930s, was not a 'one off,' it seems. Lately a man's body
has been found in perfect condition, preserved in the permafrost of Siberia,
and he is thought to be racially of the Conan type.

'It may be remembered that after the war L. Sprague de Camp and
Lin Carter developed the character of Howard's Conan, setting him in that older
world of 10,000 B.C., thus giving themselves room to create a fictitious chrat
of the world. Some brief details of Conan's new-found kinsman are related by
Adrian Berry, Science Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, London,
23rd August, 1995. He writes:

'The 3,000- year-old man has long RED HAIR
in braids and wore embroidered trousers, a fur coat and high boots. He
has a large elk tattooed on his back and chest. His horse was interred
next to him in a burial mound.'

'The Mausoleum Institute in Moscow has the
task of giving the body 'special treatment to prevent damage being caused
by exposure to heat and light.'

'It is interesting to read that the man was
like Conan, a 'SCYTHIAN or CIMMERIAN, the mysterious nomadic race who for
most of the first millenium B.C. LIVED IN THE PLAINS NORTH OF THE BLACK
SEA.'

'This knowledge of his origin rests on the
fact that he was found in the Ukok plateau, where 'scientists have also
found the preserved body of a tattooed woman.' Her body is also in Moscow
for treatment and she 'is believed to be a CIMMERIAN PRIESTESS or PRINCESS.
She was found with the bodies of a man and another woman, both wearing
armour.'